Congresses, Courses & others

Congresses

Aug-Sep 2025. 35th European Congress of Arachnology in Zadar, Croatia. Presentation of 2 talks titled "Widespread but not uniform: cryptic diversity in the cave-adapted pseudoscorpion Troglobisiumracovitzai" and "Resampling multiple genomic matrices to assess arachnid monophyly".

Aug 2025. ESEB. Congress of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona, Spain. Presentation of a talk titled "Resampling multiple genomic matrices to assess arachnid monophyly".

Jun 2025. XXIV Jornadas del Grupo Ibérico de Aracnología, Cervera de Pisuerga, Palencia, Spain. Presentation of a talk titled "The first species of Cebrennus in continental Europe".

Jul 2024. XXIII Jornadas del Grupo Ibérico de Aracnología, Alacant, Spain. Presentation of a talk titled “Resampling multiple genomic matrices to detect challenging nodes”.

Jun 2024. International Biennial Conference of the Systematics Association, Reading, UK. Presentation of a talk titled "Resampling multiple genomic matrices to detect challenging nodes".

Oct 2023. Iberian Congress of Biological Systematics (CISA), Madrid, Spain. Presentation of a talk titled “Phylogenomics of chelicerate terrestrialization”.

Sep 2022. 33rd European Congress of Arachnology, Greifswald, Germany. Presentation of a talk titled "For all audiences: The impact of incorporating immature stages into spider inventories“.

Oct 2021. XX Jornadas del Grupo Ibérico de Aracnología, Menorca, Spain. Presentation of a talk titled “A partial blast from the past: Quaternary refugia shaped Iberian spider communities phylogenetically but not functionally”.

Dec 2020. VI Congreso Latinoamericano de Aracnología, Virtual Conference. Presentation of a talk titled “How do differences in phylogenetic reconstruction affect phylogenetic diversity metrics? Spiders as a case study”.

Nov 2020. Young Systematist's Forum, Virtual Conference. Presentation of a talk titled “Building a Robust, Densely-Sampled Spider Tree of Life for Ecosystem Research”.

Feb 2019. 21st International Congress of Arachnology, Christchurch, New Zealand. Presentation of a talk titled “For all audiences: The impact of incorporating immature stages on biodiversity assessments of mega-diverse groups”.

Feb 2019. 1st Iberian Ecological Society Meeting, Barcelona, Spain. Presentation of a talk titled “For all audiences: The impact of incorporating immature stages on biodiversity assessments of mega-diverse groups”.

Jan 2019. 9th Biennial Conference of the International Biogeography Society, Málaga, Spain. Presentation of a poster titled "Along came the spider: Patterns of population structure and determinants of genetic diversity in Iberian spiders".

Oct 2018. XVIII Jornadas del Grupo Ibérico de Aracnología, Barcelona, Spain. Presentation of a talk titled “Comparative analysis and integration of morphological and DNA Barcode-based species delimitations: towards a DNA Barcode reference library of Iberian spiders”.

Sep 2018. XXXVII Annual meeting of the Willi Hennig Society, Barcelona, Spain. Presentation of a poster titled “Comparative analysis and integration of morphological and DNA Barcode-based species delimitations: towards a DNA Barcode reference library of Iberian spiders”.

Jan 2018. Iberian Congress of Biological Systematics (CISA), Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Presentation of a talk titled “A Rapid Biodiversity Inventory of Spanish National Parks: DNA Barcoding of spider communities in white-oak forests”.

Dec 2015. Iberian Congress of Biological Systematics (CISA), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. Presentation of a poster titled “Reconciling bioinventories and DNA barcodes to infer diversity patterns in Iberian spiders”.

Feb 2014. VIII Seminar of Natural Heritage in La Garrotxa, Spain. Presentation of a talk titled “Que n’hem de fer del 95% de la biodiversitat? Inventari semiquantitatiu de les comunitats d’aranyes de fagedes i alzinars del Parc".

courses

Apr 2025. Bayesian Phylogenetics Workshop, by Systematics Association and SRUK at UCL in London, UK.

Oct 2024. Population genomic inference from low-coverage whole genome sequencing data, by Physalia Courses. Online course.

Dec 2023. Data Science para biociencias : R, Python, Bioinformática, by IRBio & Biost3. IRBio, online course.

Jul 2023. EukRef 2023 Workshop for 18SrRNA data curation, by PR2 databases in Barcelona, Spain.

Jun 2023. Practical guide for novice PhD advisors, by IDP, University of Barcelona.

Jan 2020. Writing effective research manuscripts, by Chapin Rodriguez. In Barcelona, Spain.

Jul 2019. Phylogenomics and Population Genomics: Inference and Applications. Postgraduate course. In University of Barcelona, Spain.

Oct 2018. Teaching course for PhD students, by ICE, University of Barcelona.

Apr 2018. Molecular tree calibration with BEAST, by Guy Baele. In Barcelona, Spain.

Mar 2018. DNA Barcoding course in Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.

Sep 2016. Zoological nomenclature, by Miguel A. Alonso Zarazaga. In Barcelona, Spain.

Work experience

Jul 2022 - Sep 2022. Lab technician performing DNA extraction, PCR and library preparation for metabarcoding, at University of Barcelona.

Mar 2022 - Jun 2022. Taxonomic identification of spiders at the Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona.

Mar 2022 - Apr 2022. Lab technician performing DNA extractions for metabarcoding at the University of Barcelona.

Oct 2021 - Feb 2022. Taxonomic identification of spiders at the Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona.

Students Cosupervised

July 2023. Final Master's project by Arnau Innamorati. Phylogenomics of chelicerate radiation. Cosupervised with Jesus Lozano. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

July 2022. Final degree project by Àlex Sanchez. Bioinventory of spider communities in pine forests in Sant Llorenç Natural Park (Barcelona). Cosupervised with Miquel A. Arnedo. University of Barcelona.

July 2021. Final degree project by Albert Sevil. Bioinventory of spider communities in holm and white oak forest habitats in Sant Llorenç Natural Park (Barcelona). Cosupervised with Miquel A. Arnedo. University of Barcelona.

Awards and fellowships

• LinnéSys Award (2024) by the Linnean Society of London and the Systematics Association.

• Margarita Salas (2022), competitive postdoctoral contract by University of Barcelona.

• Travel grant for the 2019 International Congress of Arachnology in Christchurch, New Zealand.

• Grant for a PhD stay. Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University of Barcelona.

• APIF PhD fellowship from the University of Barcelona.

Reviews

• Communications Biology (Nature)

• Frontiers

• Zootaxa

• ZooKeys

• PeerJ

• Biodiversity Data Journal

• Wellcome Open Research

• Journal of Biogeography

• Zoosystematics and Evolution

• Scientific Reports

• Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

• Arachnology

• Journal of Insect Conservation

• Journal of Applied Entomology

• Systematics and Biodiversity

• Arachnologische Mitteilungen

• Graellsia

• Pan Pacific Entomologist

• Arxius de Miscel·lània Zoològica

• Nova Acta Cientifica Compostelana

OTHERS

Feb 2024 - Present. Editor of the scientific journal Arxius de Miscel·lània Zoològica (Q4, IF-2022: 0.54).

Nov 2023. Scientific committee at the congress PhD Day in Barcelona, Spain.

Oct 2018. Organiser of the international congress XXXVII Annual meeting of the Willi Hennig Society, in Barcelona, Spain.

PROJECTS

2025. Contract by the institution "Patronat de la Muntanya de Montserrat" - Expansion of the Catalog of arachnids of Montserrat. Role: Principal Investigator.

2024-2025. CtenoGenome. Analysing the genome diversity of Mediterranean comb jellies (Ctenophora). Role: Group member.

2024. Contract by the Catalan Government to study population genetics of cave pseudoscorpions. Role: Principal Investigator.

2023-2024. Contract by the institution "Patronat de la Muntanya de Montserrat" - The Catalog of arachnids of Montserrat. Role: Principal Investigator.

2024. Speleogenomics 2: Project for generating reference genomes of cave arthropods. Catalan Biogenome Project. Role: Group member.

2023-2026. Animal Evolution in Deep-Time: Exploring the ocean's genomic material to establish the oldest animal group. "Plan Nacional" project by Spanish Government. Role: Group member.

2023. Speleogenomics 1. Project for sampling interesting species for genome sequencing. Catalan Biogenome Project. Role: Group member.

2017-2021. ZOOSYSEVO. Research Group on animal systematics and evolution. Role: Group member.